PHP Wrapper for Yahoo! GeoPlanet

Earlier this month I wrote a quick PHP wrapper for Yahoo!’s GeoPlanet API. It’s a super useful service for querying geographical information about nearly any place on earth — addresses, landmarks, colloquial locations, etc. Or, as the official description says

GeoPlanet helps bridge the gap between the real and virtual worlds by providing an open, permanent, and intelligent infrastructure for geo-referencing data on the Internet.

There were already Perl, Python, and Ruby wrappers. I figured I’d throw PHP into the mix.

Pete Warden has already written some example code that uses the wrapper to emulate Twitter’s nearby location search.